Table of Contents
Preface vi
List of Plates x
Maps xi
Chapter 1 'Incoming Torpedo!': Greece on the Eve of War 1
Chapter 2 Over the Edge 16
Chapter 3 Punch and Counterpunch 37
Chapter 4 Mud, Blood and Cold Steel 61
Chapter 5 In the Teeth of the Blizzard 74
Chapter 6 Fiats and Gladiators 100
Chapter 7 Metaxas: 'Let us fall like men' 116
Chapter 8 Apocalypse on Hill 731: The Spring Offensive 139
Chapter 9 Falling Stars 163
Chapter 10 'This one's for the Elli!': The Naval War 173
Chapter 11 The Allies Arrive 191
Chapter 12 6 April 1941: The Saga of Fort Rupel 203
Chapter 13 Final Countdown 217
Chapter 14 Behind the Wire 237
Appendix 243
Notes 244
Sources 252
Index 254